“As the devices people spend more time staring at and interacting with–the laptop, palmtop, and hiptop–tend more and more toward mobility, the ways we interact with data and services are changing dramatically. We are taking a leap back from the heavy GUI of the past to lighter-weight, componentized, flexible interfaces such as Sherlock, Watson, and Dashboard. We’re reconsidering the browser interface, and discovering what happens when you turn Web pages back into their underlying applications and data.”

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